[12/1996] ‘Spirituality’ has to do with drawing on thoughts, experiences, and resources that nurture, examine, and encourage (i.e., ‘re’courage) one’s integrity, self, Geist, humanness (including vocabulary, ‘temple’ experiences, symbols, recollections, forgiveness, . . .).
[Note: I started using Geist after discovering the word in German language courses and then in German philosophical and theological literature. Given the ‘religious’ baggage attached to the ‘spirit/ual/ity’ word cluster, my references to Geist represent an attempt to signal that my thoughts about ‘spirit/ual/ity’ lack that ‘religious’ baggage.]
[Note: I started using Geist after discovering the word in German language courses and then in German philosophical and theological literature. Given the ‘religious’ baggage attached to the ‘spirit/ual/ity’ word cluster, my references to Geist represent an attempt to signal that my thoughts about ‘spirit/ual/ity’ lack that ‘religious’ baggage.]
